* A portable tool that provides diabetics with automated feedback — from average levels of sugar in the blood for the first signs of the effects of a treatment — can help some patients better manage the disease, suggests a new study.
Researchers from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, concluded that the biofeedback system could make it easier to walk the fine line between control blood sugar levels to minimize complications chronic condition and risk levels fall too low, a State called hypoglycemia.
Although such episodes can be quickly corrected by eating or drinking a sugar-rich foods, do not treat them can lead to confusion, seizures or even death, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases.
Lead researcher and inventor of the device, Boris Kovatchev, "we are undergoing a transition from monitoring only a patient to give feedback from person to improve symptoms of diabetes," told Reuters Health.
However, another expert is not yet convinced that the device – that is not yet available for sale nor approved by the FDA — benefit diabetics more than tools already on the market.
It's easy to reduce average blood sugar levels simply using more insulin, but that's "almost inevitably accompanied by an increased risk of hypoglycemia," he added.
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